* [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 26
@ 2004-06-29 12:22 Yuji Kosugi
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of June 28th, 2004.
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1. Gentoo News
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First Installation of Gentoo Linux on a Quadruple Opteron
---------------------------------------------------------
There are offers simply impossible to turn down. When Gentoo developer
Lars Weiler (Pylon) was approached to try an installation on the finest
machine displayed at the Hewlett-Packard booth during the German LinuxTag,
the HP staff really didn't have to ask him twice. A Proliant DL 585
featuring four 2.2 GHz AMD64 CPUs with 1 MB of L2 Cache each and a total
of 16 GB of RAM was sitting at the HP stand, and the RedHat environment
already installed served as the base of a chroot installation of Gentoo
Linux - the first installation ever on this type of machine, and the first
time anyone got a 2.6 kernel to run on it. In spite of the warnings in the
hardware manual, Pylon managed to install a 2.6.7 kernel, bootstrapped a
stage1 install in 25 minutes and was done with a complete stage3
installation after another 45 minutes. The HP staff was so pleased with
the fact that they had Gentoo running on their quadruple Opteron beast,
they took over and set up the management software for 16 other Opteron
cluster machines in the same rack, fiddled a little with Povray rendering,
and merrily ran Gentoo Linux for the remaining two days of the LinuxTag.
Figure 1.1: Left: Lars Weiler (Gentoo), right: Cedric Milesi (HP
Grenoble), center: Proliant DL 585 and 16 cluster nodes below
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040628_lars_cedric.jpg
Figure 1.2: 6 minutes to compile Qt...
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040628_compile-times.png
Gentoo Present at the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe
-------------------------------------------
With more than 20,000 visitors the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe is by far the
most important Linux and Open Source show in Europe, and the statistics at
the Gentoo booth matched the record figures of the event as a whole.During
the four days of the event, 15 developers and other Gentoo activists
shared in manning the booth. On top of the obligatory x86 PCs, six
architectures running Gentoo Linux were on display this year, including an
SGI Indy, an Xbox, several Macintosh laptops, an HP PA/RISC machine, a DEC
Alpha and a Sparc Ultra 10. It was also the first occasion to register as
a member of the Gentoo e.V., the German not-for-profit association set up
a few weeks ago.
Figure 1.1: Not just a football team: German, Swiss and Austrian
Gentooistas in front of their LinuxTag booth
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040628_gang.jpg
Left to right: cybersystem, dakjo, darktemplaa, Pylon, ian!, wschlich,
zypher, amne (kneeling), beejay, dertobi123, stkn, tantive, dj-submerge
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2. Projects Update
==================
Infrastructure
The Infrastructure project team reports that they have received two new
servers from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University[1]. These are
dual Xeon machines with 1 GB of RAM each, which will provide new homes for
the forums as well as bugzilla and packages.gentoo.org. The infrastructure
team is also working on developing and deploying some new survey software
which will help gather better information about Gentoo users, how they use
the distro, and what they would like to see. There has been a new server
added to the rsync.gentoo.org rotation.
1. http://www.osuosl.org/
Security
The Security team was pleased to report that they have set records for the
number of GLSAs released for each of the last three months, and seem well
on the way to setting another one this month. This is a strong indication
that the processes for identifying, documenting and fixing security bugs
are in place and working well. Thierry Carrez[2], Sune Kloppenborg
Jeppesen[3] and KrispyKringle[4] were specifically identified as having
done "yeoman's duty in keeping our security bugs under control".
2. Koon@gentoo.org
3. Jaervosz@gentoo.org
4. KrispyKringle@gentoo.org
Releng
The Release Engineering project informed us that Chris Gianelloni[5] will
be serving as the the Release QA manager, and that Roger Miliker[6] has
joined the team. Testing for the 2004.2 release is well underway, and test
releases of the new LiveCDs are available on the Gentoo mirrors under the
path /experimental/x86/livecd. Bugs on the test releases, as always,
should be reported at bugs.gentoo.org[7]. The catalyst tool for building
LiveCDs has been updated significantly, including better support for
distcc and the option of using an overlay for the portage snapshot. New
versions should appear in portage soon.
5. wolf31o2@gentoo.org
6. roger55@gentoo.org
7. http://bugs.gentoo.org
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3. Gentoo Security
==================
Apache 1.3: Buffer overflow in mod_proxy
----------------------------------------
A bug in mod_proxy may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code
when Apache is configured a certain way.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[8]
8. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-16.xml
IPsec-Tools: authentication bug in racoon
-----------------------------------------
racoon provided as part of IPsec-Tools fails do proper authentication.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[9]
9. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-17.xml
gzip: Insecure creation of temporary files
------------------------------------------
gzip contain a bug potentially allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary
commands.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-18.xml
giFT-FastTrack: remote denial of service attack
-----------------------------------------------
There is a vulnerability where a carefully crafted signal sent to the
giFT-FastTrack plugin will cause the giFT daemon to crash.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-19.xml
FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan: Vulnerabilities in certificate handling
------------------------------------------------------------------------
FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan and Super-FreeS/WAN contain two bugs when
authenticating PKCS#7 certificates. This could allow an attacker to
authenticate with a fake certificate.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-20.xml
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4. Featured Developer of the Week
=================================
Marius Mauch
Our featured developer for this week is Marius Mauch[13] (genone), a
member of the portage[14] developers group. He is not tied to any specific
sub-project, but works as needed on areas ranging from portage and its
associated tools through developer and user support, bugzilla maintenance
and ebuild maintenance in app-portage and others such as
sylpheed-claws[15] and gambas[16].
13. genone@gentoo.org
14. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
15. http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/
16. http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
Marius has been using Linux since Suse 6.1 in 1998, although he was
introduced to it somewhat earlier when a friend lent him a boot disk to
repair a failed Windows install. He remained a Suse user through version
7.1 and tried Red Hat 7.3 and 8.0 - the latter he describes as "one big
bug". A few Slashdot postings about Gentoo encouraged him to try it under
VMWare in the Summer of 2002. That fall, he installed Gentoo on one of his
desktops. Marius promptly began tweaking portage on his new system. After
he contributed a number of patches to portage and several new ebuilds, he
was invited to join the Gentoo team as a developer last September. When
asked to identify work he had been particularly pleased with, he mentioned
the modifications to the GLSA framework outlined in GLSA 14[17], an update
to portage to permit security upgrades to be identified and emerged.
17. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0014.html
Marius uses a fairly prosaic Athon-XP 2600+ desktop, as well as a P2 266
that has been converted for use as a router/server and an aging P3 Celeron
1133 Laptop. He is currently using XFCE4[18] on the Desktop and Gnome[19]
on the Laptop, but isn't particularly partisan about any WM. In addition
to Sylpheed-Claws, he usually starts gaim[20], xchat[21], firefox[22] and
xmms[23] or motv[24] shortly after booting a machine.
18. http://www.xfce.org/
19. http://www.gnome.org/
20. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/index.php
21. http://www.xchat.org/
22. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
23. http://www.xmms.org/
24. http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/
Marius lives in Germany, where he is studying Computer Science at the
University of Bremen. He enjoys role-playing (although he has little
opportunity to do so at the moment) as well as biking and watching
Football. He is particularly pleased that Werder Bremen[25] won the double
this year. He confesses to having recently renewed a video-game addiction
for which he is not seeking treatment. He is a Babylon 5 fan, offering a
line from the character G'Kar as a favorite: "No dictator, no invader can
hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no
greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that
power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand." Marius concluded
by saying that "Gentoo is like a Vorlon: mysterious but very powerful."
25. http://www.werder-online.de/english/index.php
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5. Heard in the Community
=========================
Web Forums
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GNUstep Guerilla
GNUstep, the notoriously underestimated project, is not just the umptienth
funny way of managing your desktop. What's more interesting is the
development environment it provides for compiling Mac OS X (Cocoa)
applications for use on an x86 Linux platform. To reflect the progress
that GNUstep has made over the past few months, Forum user fafhrd[26]
seems to have found his calling: Unconvinced by the current state of the
GNUstep ebuilds in Portage, he decided to write some of his own, ended up
posting a dozen new bugs and getting feedback from a number of people
adventurous enough to try them out:
26. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1327
* GNUstep on Gentoo: how many of us are there?[27]
* New GNUstep Bugs[28]
27. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=184040
28.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssu
bstr&short_desc=GNUstep&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_l
oc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&
status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&
bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&
bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=substring
&email1=armando&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=
substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfield
to=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0
-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
gentoo-user
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Yahoo Changes Affect Gentoo Users
Earlier this week, Yahoo changed the protocol used in their Instant
Messaging client. Two popular message clients, Kopete and GAIM, were both
affected[29].
29. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/86106
Installing Gentoo from Knoppix?
The Alternative Gentoo Installation guide provides instructions on
installing Gentoo from a Knoppix CD. However, one list member was having
some troubles. Check out this[30] thread to read up on som extra tips!
30. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/85719
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6. Gentoo International
=======================
Italy: MOCA Hacker Camp in Pescara, 20-22 August 2004
Italian geeks have known Metro Olografix[31] as an organisation of mailbox
admins and bulletin board system hackers from the Fido realm who got
together ten years ago in an effort to fight against police intervention
in running their BBSs. To commemorate the anniversay, the Metro Olografix
Camp (MOCA)[32] will be organised during the third weekend in August, in
the city of Pescara. The MOCA is a hacker camp designed after the famous
Chaos Computer Club summer camps in Germany, with workshops and
friendliness and sports for nerds. Gentoo developer Luca Barbato[33]
currently drumming up a posse to join him at the camp knows what he's
talking about - he's already been to the CCC camps... You don't want to
miss this, the MOCA site is set in one of the most spectacular landscapes
of Italy, underneath the Abruzzian hills and right on the Adriatic
waterfront. If you haven't planned your summer holiday yet, here's the
perfect place. Check the Italian forum thread[34] for details.
31. http://www.olografix.org
32. http://camp.olografix.org
33. lu_zero@gentoo.org
34. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=187116
Central Europe: Gentoo User Map Revisited
About a year ago, German Gentoo developers came up with the idea of
representing users as little red dots on a map of the country.
Unfortunately, the old site disappeared along with the entries of
everybody who had already entered their location data. Now the interactive
map of the geographical Gentoo user distribution in and around Germany has
been brought back, stable and easily usable, and on a server that's
unlikely to disappear any time soon. If you're a Gentoo user within the
area covered on this map (which is much larger than Germany, including all
of the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland, together
with most of Belgium, Poland, and Slovakia, and parts of Italy and
France), make yourself visible here[35]. Even if you don't know a word of
German, the instructions should be fairly easy to follow: Just enter your
coordinates, name and email address.
35. http://www.gentoo.de/userkarte/
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7. Tips and Tricks
==================
Finding recent files with ls and 'FlAt'
A quick way to find recently changed files is to pass the -FlAt flags to
ls. Combined with head, this command can give you a quick overview of
recently modified files in a directory. The -F option distinguishes
certain types of files and directories by adding extra characters (such as
'/' for directories, '*' for executables, etc.). The -t option sorts the
entries by the date they were last modified. Piping the output to head
shows (by default) only 10 entries.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 7.1: |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|# ls -FlAt | head |
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For more information, see man ls.
===========================
8. Moves, Adds, and Changes
===========================
Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Michele Noberasco (s4t4n)
* Frank van de pol (fvdpol) - sound
* Daniel Goller (morfic) - gcc
* Philippe Trottier (tchiwam) - ppc64
* Olivier Fisette (ribosome) - bioinformatics/molecular biology software
* Robb Romans (killsoft) - media-radio
* Elizabeth Blackwell (LizB) - Gentoo/PPC documentation
* Tamran Lengyel (tamran)
* Alex Polvi (polvi) - infrastructure
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* Jeremy Huddleston (eradicator) - joined devrel
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of June 28th, 2004.
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1. Gentoo News
==============
First Installation of Gentoo Linux on a Quadruple Opteron
---------------------------------------------------------
There are offers simply impossible to turn down. When Gentoo developer
Lars Weiler (Pylon) was approached to try an installation on the finest
machine displayed at the Hewlett-Packard booth during the German LinuxTag,
the HP staff really didn't have to ask him twice. A Proliant DL 585
featuring four 2.2 GHz AMD64 CPUs with 1 MB of L2 Cache each and a total
of 16 GB of RAM was sitting at the HP stand, and the RedHat environment
already installed served as the base of a chroot installation of Gentoo
Linux - the first installation ever on this type of machine, and the first
time anyone got a 2.6 kernel to run on it. In spite of the warnings in the
hardware manual, Pylon managed to install a 2.6.7 kernel, bootstrapped a
stage1 install in 25 minutes and was done with a complete stage3
installation after another 45 minutes. The HP staff was so pleased with
the fact that they had Gentoo running on their quadruple Opteron beast,
they took over and set up the management software for 16 other Opteron
cluster machines in the same rack, fiddled a little with Povray rendering,
and merrily ran Gentoo Linux for the remaining two days of the LinuxTag.
Figure 1.1: Left: Lars Weiler (Gentoo), right: Cedric Milesi (HP
Grenoble), center: Proliant DL 585 and 16 cluster nodes below
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040628_lars_cedric.jpg
Figure 1.2: 6 minutes to compile Qt...
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040628_compile-times.png
Gentoo Present at the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe
-------------------------------------------
With more than 20,000 visitors the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe is by far the
most important Linux and Open Source show in Europe, and the statistics at
the Gentoo booth matched the record figures of the event as a whole.During
the four days of the event, 15 developers and other Gentoo activists
shared in manning the booth. On top of the obligatory x86 PCs, six
architectures running Gentoo Linux were on display this year, including an
SGI Indy, an Xbox, several Macintosh laptops, an HP PA/RISC machine, a DEC
Alpha and a Sparc Ultra 10. It was also the first occasion to register as
a member of the Gentoo e.V., the German not-for-profit association set up
a few weeks ago.
Figure 1.1: Not just a football team: German, Swiss and Austrian
Gentooistas in front of their LinuxTag booth
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040628_gang.jpg
Left to right: cybersystem, dakjo, darktemplaa, Pylon, ian!, wschlich,
zypher, amne (kneeling), beejay, dertobi123, stkn, tantive, dj-submerge
==================
2. Projects Update
==================
Infrastructure
The Infrastructure project team reports that they have received two new
servers from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University[1]. These are
dual Xeon machines with 1 GB of RAM each, which will provide new homes for
the forums as well as bugzilla and packages.gentoo.org. The infrastructure
team is also working on developing and deploying some new survey software
which will help gather better information about Gentoo users, how they use
the distro, and what they would like to see. There has been a new server
added to the rsync.gentoo.org rotation.
1. http://www.osuosl.org/
Security
The Security team was pleased to report that they have set records for the
number of GLSAs released for each of the last three months, and seem well
on the way to setting another one this month. This is a strong indication
that the processes for identifying, documenting and fixing security bugs
are in place and working well. Thierry Carrez[2], Sune Kloppenborg
Jeppesen[3] and KrispyKringle[4] were specifically identified as having
done "yeoman's duty in keeping our security bugs under control".
2. Koon@gentoo.org
3. Jaervosz@gentoo.org
4. KrispyKringle@gentoo.org
Releng
The Release Engineering project informed us that Chris Gianelloni[5] will
be serving as the the Release QA manager, and that Roger Miliker[6] has
joined the team. Testing for the 2004.2 release is well underway, and test
releases of the new LiveCDs are available on the Gentoo mirrors under the
path /experimental/x86/livecd. Bugs on the test releases, as always,
should be reported at bugs.gentoo.org[7]. The catalyst tool for building
LiveCDs has been updated significantly, including better support for
distcc and the option of using an overlay for the portage snapshot. New
versions should appear in portage soon.
5. wolf31o2@gentoo.org
6. roger55@gentoo.org
7. http://bugs.gentoo.org
==================
3. Gentoo Security
==================
Apache 1.3: Buffer overflow in mod_proxy
----------------------------------------
A bug in mod_proxy may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code
when Apache is configured a certain way.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[8]
8. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-16.xml
IPsec-Tools: authentication bug in racoon
-----------------------------------------
racoon provided as part of IPsec-Tools fails do proper authentication.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[9]
9. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-17.xml
gzip: Insecure creation of temporary files
------------------------------------------
gzip contain a bug potentially allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary
commands.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-18.xml
giFT-FastTrack: remote denial of service attack
-----------------------------------------------
There is a vulnerability where a carefully crafted signal sent to the
giFT-FastTrack plugin will cause the giFT daemon to crash.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-19.xml
FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan: Vulnerabilities in certificate handling
------------------------------------------------------------------------
FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan and Super-FreeS/WAN contain two bugs when
authenticating PKCS#7 certificates. This could allow an attacker to
authenticate with a fake certificate.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-20.xml
=================================
4. Featured Developer of the Week
=================================
Marius Mauch
Our featured developer for this week is Marius Mauch[13] (genone), a
member of the portage[14] developers group. He is not tied to any specific
sub-project, but works as needed on areas ranging from portage and its
associated tools through developer and user support, bugzilla maintenance
and ebuild maintenance in app-portage and others such as
sylpheed-claws[15] and gambas[16].
13. genone@gentoo.org
14. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
15. http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/
16. http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
Marius has been using Linux since Suse 6.1 in 1998, although he was
introduced to it somewhat earlier when a friend lent him a boot disk to
repair a failed Windows install. He remained a Suse user through version
7.1 and tried Red Hat 7.3 and 8.0 - the latter he describes as "one big
bug". A few Slashdot postings about Gentoo encouraged him to try it under
VMWare in the Summer of 2002. That fall, he installed Gentoo on one of his
desktops. Marius promptly began tweaking portage on his new system. After
he contributed a number of patches to portage and several new ebuilds, he
was invited to join the Gentoo team as a developer last September. When
asked to identify work he had been particularly pleased with, he mentioned
the modifications to the GLSA framework outlined in GLSA 14[17], an update
to portage to permit security upgrades to be identified and emerged.
17. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0014.html
Marius uses a fairly prosaic Athon-XP 2600+ desktop, as well as a P2 266
that has been converted for use as a router/server and an aging P3 Celeron
1133 Laptop. He is currently using XFCE4[18] on the Desktop and Gnome[19]
on the Laptop, but isn't particularly partisan about any WM. In addition
to Sylpheed-Claws, he usually starts gaim[20], xchat[21], firefox[22] and
xmms[23] or motv[24] shortly after booting a machine.
18. http://www.xfce.org/
19. http://www.gnome.org/
20. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/index.php
21. http://www.xchat.org/
22. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
23. http://www.xmms.org/
24. http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/
Marius lives in Germany, where he is studying Computer Science at the
University of Bremen. He enjoys role-playing (although he has little
opportunity to do so at the moment) as well as biking and watching
Football. He is particularly pleased that Werder Bremen[25] won the double
this year. He confesses to having recently renewed a video-game addiction
for which he is not seeking treatment. He is a Babylon 5 fan, offering a
line from the character G'Kar as a favorite: "No dictator, no invader can
hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no
greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that
power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand." Marius concluded
by saying that "Gentoo is like a Vorlon: mysterious but very powerful."
25. http://www.werder-online.de/english/index.php
=========================
5. Heard in the Community
=========================
Web Forums
----------
GNUstep Guerilla
GNUstep, the notoriously underestimated project, is not just the umptienth
funny way of managing your desktop. What's more interesting is the
development environment it provides for compiling Mac OS X (Cocoa)
applications for use on an x86 Linux platform. To reflect the progress
that GNUstep has made over the past few months, Forum user fafhrd[26]
seems to have found his calling: Unconvinced by the current state of the
GNUstep ebuilds in Portage, he decided to write some of his own, ended up
posting a dozen new bugs and getting feedback from a number of people
adventurous enough to try them out:
26. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1327
* GNUstep on Gentoo: how many of us are there?[27]
* New GNUstep Bugs[28]
27. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=184040
28.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssu
bstr&short_desc=GNUstep&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_l
oc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&
status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&
bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&
bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=substring
&email1=armando&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=
substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfield
to=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0
-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
gentoo-user
-----------
Yahoo Changes Affect Gentoo Users
Earlier this week, Yahoo changed the protocol used in their Instant
Messaging client. Two popular message clients, Kopete and GAIM, were both
affected[29].
29. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/86106
Installing Gentoo from Knoppix?
The Alternative Gentoo Installation guide provides instructions on
installing Gentoo from a Knoppix CD. However, one list member was having
some troubles. Check out this[30] thread to read up on som extra tips!
30. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/85719
=======================
6. Gentoo International
=======================
Italy: MOCA Hacker Camp in Pescara, 20-22 August 2004
Italian geeks have known Metro Olografix[31] as an organisation of mailbox
admins and bulletin board system hackers from the Fido realm who got
together ten years ago in an effort to fight against police intervention
in running their BBSs. To commemorate the anniversay, the Metro Olografix
Camp (MOCA)[32] will be organised during the third weekend in August, in
the city of Pescara. The MOCA is a hacker camp designed after the famous
Chaos Computer Club summer camps in Germany, with workshops and
friendliness and sports for nerds. Gentoo developer Luca Barbato[33]
currently drumming up a posse to join him at the camp knows what he's
talking about - he's already been to the CCC camps... You don't want to
miss this, the MOCA site is set in one of the most spectacular landscapes
of Italy, underneath the Abruzzian hills and right on the Adriatic
waterfront. If you haven't planned your summer holiday yet, here's the
perfect place. Check the Italian forum thread[34] for details.
31. http://www.olografix.org
32. http://camp.olografix.org
33. lu_zero@gentoo.org
34. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=187116
Central Europe: Gentoo User Map Revisited
About a year ago, German Gentoo developers came up with the idea of
representing users as little red dots on a map of the country.
Unfortunately, the old site disappeared along with the entries of
everybody who had already entered their location data. Now the interactive
map of the geographical Gentoo user distribution in and around Germany has
been brought back, stable and easily usable, and on a server that's
unlikely to disappear any time soon. If you're a Gentoo user within the
area covered on this map (which is much larger than Germany, including all
of the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland, together
with most of Belgium, Poland, and Slovakia, and parts of Italy and
France), make yourself visible here[35]. Even if you don't know a word of
German, the instructions should be fairly easy to follow: Just enter your
coordinates, name and email address.
35. http://www.gentoo.de/userkarte/
==================
7. Tips and Tricks
==================
Finding recent files with ls and 'FlAt'
A quick way to find recently changed files is to pass the -FlAt flags to
ls. Combined with head, this command can give you a quick overview of
recently modified files in a directory. The -F option distinguishes
certain types of files and directories by adding extra characters (such as
'/' for directories, '*' for executables, etc.). The -t option sorts the
entries by the date they were last modified. Piping the output to head
shows (by default) only 10 entries.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 7.1: |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|# ls -FlAt | head |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
For more information, see man ls.
===========================
8. Moves, Adds, and Changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Michele Noberasco (s4t4n)
* Frank van de pol (fvdpol) - sound
* Daniel Goller (morfic) - gcc
* Philippe Trottier (tchiwam) - ppc64
* Olivier Fisette (ribosome) - bioinformatics/molecular biology software
* Robb Romans (killsoft) - media-radio
* Elizabeth Blackwell (LizB) - Gentoo/PPC documentation
* Tamran Lengyel (tamran)
* Alex Polvi (polvi) - infrastructure
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* Jeremy Huddleston (eradicator) - joined devrel
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